User:Ljb/dystopia

The Dystopia is related to an RP story arc of the Adventurers starting summer of 2014. Based upon the suggestions of Adventurers members, an alternate future has been developed. The slaying of Blue Wonder leads to an unfavorable future timeline that the Adventurers members (and some of the team's RP allies) will have a chance to play in, and rectify this horrid turn of events.

2014

• Blue Wonder is slain in battle with Bedlam
• Red Spider unmasks herself publicly; she takes on the code name Red Wonder in honor of her fallen team mate

2015

• A member of the Syndicate is found to have been brutally killed - Lady Justice is suspected of murder, but she cannot be located
• Under civil liberties pressure, UNTIL begins to crack down on the Adventurers, delivering an ultimatum to all register, or desist from all vigilante activities
• Fox retires from costumed heroics to avoid UNTIL’s backlash at Red Wonder's urging
• Jason Leander retires his costume and continues his work for UNTIL, but refuses to turn on his former Adventurer comrades
• Mark of Power, Juggernette, Night Spider, and others continue to quietly operate solo
• Red Wonder carries on solo and partners with Night Spider occasionally

2016

• Fox marries early in the year. He and his wife welcome their firstborn child before year’s end

2017

• Red Wonder retires from costumed heroics when her boyfriend is killed in reprisal by one of her enemies; she begins traveling abroad anonymously

2018

• An UNTIL technician named Kenneth Sims discovers classified documents suggesting that UNTIL could have acted to save Red Wonder’s boyfriend or give her advance warning, but due to red tape, did not act.
  • This leads to Sims reading more and more classified material to which he has access
  • Sims becomes more and more disenchanted with UNTIL as he learns about some of its undisclosed mistakes, but does not let this on to his co-workers

2019

• Sims makes a massive dump of files to a free information website supposedly interested in exposing the organization’s supposed misdeeds and jurisdictional oversteps
• The information website is actually run by a super criminal, who extracts from the info dump intelligence about known secret identities
• Day of 1,000 Tears: numerous heroes, active or retired, and/or their families are killed as a result of their identities becoming very suddenly leaked to criminal organizations around the world
  • Fox narrowly survives a targeted killing, but his entire family is slain.
  • Gangsters use leaked UNTIL information to locate Red Wonder's parents and kill them
  • Days later Red Wonder re-emerges from obscurity to lead dozens of heroes and their supporters to rally out front of the UNTIL building to decry the agency’s poor safeguards and some of the other dubious acts the info dump revealed
    • An assassin from the Chairman assassinates Red Wonder moments after she gives a rousing speech at the rally
    • Night Spider is gifted much of Cassandra Olsen’s estate, including all of her equipment, her home, and her wealth
• Lady Justice re-emerges with a pledge to enforce a more just society in the name of Blue Wonder and Red Wonder. She gains other allies among those disenchanted with UNTIL and leads an underground strike force determined to undermine UNTIL
  • Lady Justice's secret identity has managed to become a majority shareholder in ARGENT, and she applies its economic leverage
• Fox neutralizes the security detail watching Kenneth Sims, and brutally murders the so-called whistle blower; Sims's body is later discovered in a dumpster, but police have no clear suspect
• Fox joins Lady Justice; she enhances him with cybernetic parts

2020

• Operation: Zero Hour: In the New Year, Lady Justice & Fox succeed at stealing into UNTIL HQ and taking possession of it with their cadre of meta human allies
  • Much of UNTIL’s infrastructure is destroyed or comes under the control of Lady Justice.
  • Jason Leander and his UNTIL team get wind of the attack and go off the grid
• Within a week of Lady Justice’s taking control she publicly pledges a new super-policing regime that she herself will oversee, and ensure that no one need ever again suffer as she has. She begins a goodwill campaign to ease the world’s fears.
• At first welcomed by many, by mid-year, it becomes clear that Lady Justice’s army of UNTIL-built robots and super-powered lieutenants are enforcing a new dominion over the free world, enacting harsh (often lethal) penalties upon offenders without due process. Normal people begin to realize that they are under constant surveillance.
• Lady Justice begins to become a recluse, very rarely seen publicly, rumored to be focused on her R&D now that she has virtually limitless resources
• Fox is rewarded by Lady Justice for good service with an upgrade to his cybernetics

2021

• Lady Justice devises a serum that can – for a short time – remove the powers of many meta-humans
• Battle of the Super Powers or Freedom's Massacre
  • NATO, Russia, and China cooperate in a bid to remove Lady Justice and her allies as a threat to global freedom
  • Lady Justice unleashes her serum on these nations’ meta human champions, neutralizing her greatest adversaries'
  • The conventional armies are all defeated within three days, proving no match for Lady Justice's meta human allies
  • Lady Justice imprisons meta humans who are not on her side, restraining them and medicating them with her serum to keep them from becoming a threat
• Lady Justice assigns super powered lieutenants to ‘oversee’ territories of the world
  • Nations remain nominally sovereign, however, Lady Justice’s security drones are everywhere keeping resistance tamped down
  • Only unarmed peace-keeping militias are allowed to help keep order locally -- Lady Justice's allies destroy military hardware when they find it
  • Global resources are used as Lady Justice and her allies see fit
• Mark of Power reforms the Adventurers with Night Spider, Juggernette, Talons, and Guidelight, and they operate underground in opposition to Lady Justice
• Night Terror continues to assist the Adventurers, but uses his resources to work solo

2022

• Propaganda suggests that Mark of Power is one of the deadliest terrorists alive – in the new world order, he is one of the most powerful meta humans left free

2024

• Juggernette is captured by Lady Justice’s forces; her past is exposed in a publicized show-trial aimed at embarrassing Mark of Power and the Adventurers
• Juggernette escapes later in the year when she is able to steal & reconfigure a prison guard’s transmitter to signal one of her suits to break her out of prison; she rejoins the Adventurers

2025

• Juggernette loses an arm in combat with Fox; she uses parts from Justice Bots to build a new one
• Fox receives a major sensory upgrade from Lady Justice

2027

• Fox tracks down and eliminates former Adventurers Cryo-talon & Shift Shot

2030

• Fox and Juggernette duel to a draw; this time, Juggernette loses an eye, but she manages to replace it with a mechanical one of her own design afterward
• The Adventurers liberate a number of former UNTIL operatives from their prisons, who in turn share information on hidden UNTIL supply caches

2031

• Fox eliminates Talons
• Lady Justice begins researching methods of time travel

2032

• Jason Leander AKA Desert Blade, along with a band of survivalist commandos, rescues the Adventurers from certain death when they fall into a trap
• A martial artist named Jesse Weaver is liberated from a camp of political prisoners by the Adventurers – she joins the team under the code name Red Spider.
• Night Spider gifts Cassandra Olsen’s beam grapplers to Jesse
• Night Terror is captured and sent to a prison

2034

• Adventurers reside on a former UNTIL submarine – a mobile HQ which is one of the last places they can hide
• Most of the world’s cities are under control of Lady Justice’s forces, but Lady Justice herself is rarely seen or heard from…
• The team learns that Lady Justice is assembling a time machine, but that she is missing several rare components – which she is actively seeking!